Scotland and the borders of romanticism
By: edited by Leith Davis, Ian Duncan, Janet Sorensen.
Contributors: Davis, Leith, 1960-; Duncan, Ian.; Sorensen, Janet.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Cambridge, UK; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 248
Subjects: Scottish literature -- 18th century -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- Scotland; Scottish literature -- 19th century -- History and criticism; Romanticism -- Scottish Borders (England and Scotland); Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- Intellectual life; Scottish Borders (England and Scotland) -- In literature; Borders Region (Scotland) -- Intellectual life; Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 18th century; Scotland -- Intellectual life -- 19th century; Borders Region (Scotland) -- In literature; Scotland -- In literature
Description: "Scotland and the Borders of Romanticism is the first published collection of critical essays devoted to Scottish writing between 1745 and 1830 - a key period marking the contested divide between the Scottish Enlightenment and Romanticism in British literary history. Essays in the volume, by leading scholars from Scotland, England, Canada and the USA, address a range of major figures and topics, among them Hume and the Romantic imagination, Burns's poetry, the Scottish song and ballad revivals, gender and national tradition, the prose fiction of Walter Scott and James Hogg, the national theatre of Joanna Baillie, the Romantic varieties of historicism and antiquarianism, Romantic Orientalism, and Scotland as a site of English cultural fantasies. The essays undertake a collective rethinking of the national and period categories that have structured British literary history, by examining the relations between the concepts of the Enlightenment and Romanticism as well as between Scottish and English writing."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.